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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Haven: Season 3, Episode 1: 301

A brand new series of Haven is starting – time to see if
we get more meta, or more Troubled of the Week

Last season ended with 2 cliffhangers. Audrey being
tasered and kidnapped by someone. And Nathan pointing a gun at Duke – and then
we heard a gunshot. You’ll be utterly shocked, shocked to know that Nathan did
not shoot Duke. Yes, I am completely surprised by this unforeseen turn of
events, honest. Nathan and Duke wrestle over the gun and begin fighting. Nathan
has the upperhand because he doesn’t feel any pain – but the minute a drop of
his blood lands on Duke, his eyes go all swirly and grey – and he gets his
super strength, allowing him to knock Nathan across the room.

Before more fighting can happen, everything metallic,
including the gun they were reaching for, sticks to the ceiling. Ah, Haven. Always
with something new. Both being pretty sure that this particular Trouble isn’t THEIR
Trouble, they go back to discussing Audrey. As a show of good faith, when all
the metal drops, Duke hands the gun to Nathan, insisting that he isn’t the same
as his murdering father and grandfather.

The flying metal seems to have hit across town in a line –
and Dwight the cleaner is already around, covering it up, blaming it on mundane
excuses when Nathan and Duke tell him Audrey has been abducted – and another police
officer tells Nathan another woman has been taken too.

Vince (my favourite character still) and Dave are still
at odds – and Dwight even asks Vince is Dave may be behind Audrey’s abduction –
which shows again how little we know about these characters (answers! I want
answers!)

Nathan and Duke (I love how Duke gets to play road trip
with the police so often) go to question the son of the missing woman at the
Altair Bay Inn – and find Wesley who is eager to tell them about alien
abductions – then run off on a bike when they don’t believe him.

Under the Inn Audrey is tied up in a warehouse somewhere,
being hit by a silhouetted man with a disguised voice who wants her to tell him
about the Colorado Kid. She tells him she never met him, that he died 27 years
ago and she only saw a picture – he doesn’t believe her and he claims he also
cared for the Colorado Kid. Through the wall, Audrey hears the other kidnapped
woman, Rosalind and, after calming her down, finds out she was asked about the Colorado
Kid too since he stayed at her inn years ago.

Nathan and Duke can’t chase the guy on the bike because
their engine dies. As do all the phones. While trying to fix the truck they
have an argument about Nathan being a lovesick puppy and Nathan tells Duke he
can feel Audrey – right before an invisible force grabs Nathan by the ankles
and drags him through the brush until they reach a perfect circle in the weeds
and grass – with odd symbols inside it. Surrounded by many other circles just
like it. That’s when the UFO shows up – a shiny metal ball – and plunges into
the ground near the inn. Aliens? That’s a bit weird even for Haven.

Nathan, Duke, Vince and Dave check Wesley’s house after
catching him and find lots and lots of UFO articles from less than reputable
sources – but all of the events they described just happened in Haven. They
suspect that Wesley may be Troubled and he is manifesting his fears and
obsessions about aliens – which is worrisome considering 2 that haven’t
happened yet – lights in the sky, and an entire enclave being destroyed.

The explosive impact did one thing useful – knocking over
an oil lamp where Audrey is tied up. She extinguishes the fire and, using a
shard of the broken glass, manages to cut her ropes while talking to Rosalind
about her memories and how hard it is to distract herself from the cuts. But
when she is freed, Rosalind has been taken somewhere by their kidnapper. She
managed to find a phone and call Nathan, telling him where they are and that
Rosalind is with them – and maybe if you show Wesley Rosalind hasn’t been
kidnapped it will avert his Trouble – especially as lights have appeared in the
sky.

They rush to the inn and meet Audrey – first Duke then Nathan
(she goes to hug Nathan which I think is supposed to be a “look she chose
Nathan not Duke” moment). They know the kidnapper is around – and hear
something outside. They rush out to see… a body, with Rosalind’s prosthetic
leg, burning.They can’t convince Wesley
that he’s Troubled and there are no aliens – meaning the mothership arrives to do its mass
destruction. Audrey desperately tries to convince Wesley that he’s Troubled. He
can’t stop believing but Nathan points out Wesley’s grandfather, who was supposedly
abducted by aliens, probably had the same Trouble and he didn’t destroy the
town. Nathan convinces Wesley to go to the spaceship, to join his grandfather
on board – he walks into the light and it all disappears.

Which creates a moral quandary that Duke confronts him with. Nathan was
adamantly against Duke killing Wesley – but hasn’t Nathan done the same thing?
Made him crawl aboard a ship that doesn’t exist? Nathan clings to the idea that
when the Troubles are over he may be able to come back – and he confronts Duke
with his willingness to kill, like his father and his grandfather. Those 2 are
never going to get along.

And Audrey confronts Vince and Dave – she wants more
answers. Is the Colorado Kid alive and did he love Lucy – or she when she was
Lucy? Vince says they don’t know the second and as to the first he buried the
Colorado Kid himself. Audrey demands to see the grave and Vince and Dave agree
to put aside their differences until they find Audrey’s kidnapper – and why he
knows so much. And guess which grave is empty? Yes – the Colorado Kid’s body.
The coffin is weighted with bricks and on the bottom of the coffin is written “find
him before the hunter”. In Audrey’s handwriting. Now there’s a mystery that fits
so well with the amnesia.

Bonus mystery – forensics says Rosalind had been dead 4 hours in the fire, even
though Audrey heard her talk an hour before.

So new season – and lots of mysteries. The tattoos,
Audrey’s memories, the Colorado Kid finally becoming important and relevant, a
missing body, Nathan and Duke on the morality question and Vince and Dave, as
ever, guarding so many secrets.